GS-01: Defining a new site

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About This Episode

Start a new project in Dreamweaver CS5 by defining a new site, which activates Dreamweaver's ability to resolve links, check related files, and manage assets. Establish a root directory and name the site in the Site Setup dialog box.

Learn about using Dreamweaver CS5 to design, develop, and deploy websites. The benefits of Dreamweaver include its visual workflow, advanced site management capabilities, and support for technologies such as JavaScript, PHP, and XML.

Start a new project in Dreamweaver CS5 by defining a new site, which activates Dreamweaver's ability to resolve links, check related files, and manage assets. Establish a root directory and name the site in the Site Setup dialog box.

Use the Assets panel to manage images, movies, scripts, and other files related to your website. Preview assets, filter assets by using the panel categories, locate assets embedded within a site, and organize assets by using folders and favorites.

Explore different techniques in Dreamweaver CS5 for adding images and artwork to your website. Use the Insert menu or the Common category of the Insert panel to select and insert an image, or drag and drop images from the Files or Assets panels.

Create links from text, images, and other elements on a web page by using various techniques in Dreamweaver CS5. Learn how to set the link text, a link title for accessibility, link target, and destination.

Learn the benefits of cascading style sheets—collections of formatting attributes applied to a single element, a whole page, or an entire website. Distinguish between external and internal styles and learn how CSS makes your website more efficient.

Focus on specific content regions and make precise edits to a web page with Dreamweaver's Live view and CSS Inspect. Make changes to your style sheets and preview the results without leaving the application.

Use Dreamweaver CS5 to view code hints related to content management system frameworks such as WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla. Learn how to set up site-specific code hinting for a CMS so you can easily work with your PHP website in Dreamweaver.

Add site functionality with ease by using the new Widget Browser. Set up and install the Widget Browser, explore Adobe Exchange, Adobe's new community-based online resource for widgets, and see a sample integration of a slideshow widget.

Learn how to use Subversion--an open-source version control system--and Dreamweaver CS5. Learn how to work with multiple versions of a web page and how to decide which version to make live at any time. An associated PDF offers troubleshooting tips.

Learn how to reuse code as code snippets in order to speed up your workflow in Dreamweaver CS6. This video shows how to find Dreamweaver's default snippets, create your own snipptes, and create keyboard shortcuts for your snippets. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Learn how to use the Quick Tag Editor to work on your sites efficiently in Dreamweaver. This feature allows you to access code quickly, whether you're in Design view or Code view. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Using code hinting features in Dreamweaver removes the tediousness of entering code by hand. This video explores how to incorporate code hints into your Dreamweaver workflow. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.